Acanthophyllum squarrosum

Description

Shrubby perennial,10?30 cm.Stems branched,greyish-green,glabrous crisp-pubescent.Leaves spreading or recurved,with sterile,small spiny leaf fascicles in the axils,white pubescent or glabrous,15-35 x 1 mm,subulate to acerose ridged,flat above,concave beneath,apex spiny.Flowers in 1-3-terminal corymbs Flowers sessile to shortly pedicellate.Bracts spiny.Calyx 6?8 mm,cylindrical pubescent or glabrous;teeth lanceolate,the apex spiny;nerves 5,protruding.Petals white or pink,c.13 mm,limb elliptic-linear,apex acute,entire,exserted claw narrow.